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  • Olive Garden tries to woo back customers after falling into a rut

    01/25/2012 8:25:29 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 98 replies
    McClatchy-Tribune Newspapers ^ | January 23, 2012 | Sandra Pedicini
    With sales slipping, Olive Garden is trying to win back customers who have fallen out of love with the nation's largest Italian chain. It is a major challenge for Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster and other brands.
  • State Alcohol Control Law Expensive, Unfair, Ineffective

    12/08/2011 11:21:36 AM PST · by MichCapCon · 2 replies
    Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 12/8/2011 | Michael LaFaive
    The recent release of Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” documentary has raised many good questions about the subject of alcohol control. For Michigan, the questions are timely. Gov. Rick Snyder’s 21-member Liquor Control Advisory Rules Committee will soon present its ideas for alcohol control reform, and would be wise to think and reform boldly. Michigan’s laws and rules governing alcohol control have been treated like the play things of politicians and powerful special interests for decades. They are not as protective of public safety as neo-prohibitionists want people to believe, and are actually protectionist in many ways, treating different businesses and people...
  • N.C. Heart Attack Rates Down Since Passage of Smoke-Free Law

    11/16/2011 12:39:21 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 21 replies
    RALEIGH – Emergency room visits by North Carolinians experiencing heart attacks have declined by 21 percent since the January 2010 start of the state’s Smoke-Free Restaurants and Bars Law. State Health Director Dr. Jeffrey Engel reported the results to the Justus-Warren Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Task Force this morning. “We pushed for passage of this law because we knew it would save lives,” said Governor Bev Perdue, who signed the law into effect. “Our goal was to protect workers and patrons from breathing secondhand smoke and we are seeing positive results.” The N.C. Division of Public Health report cites...
  • After Chef’s Hitler Remark, Bankers Change Lunch Plans (Mario Batali)

    11/09/2011 7:42:28 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 29 replies
    New York Timed ^ | November 9, 2011 | JAMES BARRON
    Del Posto and Babbo have the same celebrity chef as an owner, reputations for impossible-to-get reservations, and customers who can afford, say, Del Posto’s seven-course “menu tradizionale” at $145 a person. It is not unreasonable to imagine that a good number of those customers make a living on Wall Street. So their reaction after word spread on Wednesday that Mario Batali had mentioned them in the same breath as Stalin and Hitler was to let their hefty wallets do the talking and threaten to cancel their hard-won reservations. Some complained on Twitter, some on the Bloomberg terminals they use to...
  • National Restaurant Association chairman during Cain’s tenure: ‘It’s a hatchet job’

    11/03/2011 5:23:10 PM PDT · by martosko · 45 replies · 2+ views
    The Daily Caller ^ | 11/03/2011 | David Martosko
    In an interview with The Daily Caller, former National Restaurant Association board chairman Joseph Fassler offered a firm defense of GOP presidential front-runner Herman Cain, along with an explanation for how Washington’s best kept secret — the identities of Cain’s sexual-harassment accusers — was also kept from the association’s board. “The accusations? It’s a hatchet job, in my opinion,” Fassler told TheDC from his Phoenix, Ariz. office. “My gut tells me it’s a hatchet job. He gets a lead, he gets some traction, and the next thing you know, here come these allegations. It’s sad.”
  • Cain campaign accuses Politico of ‘unsubstantiated personal attacks’

    10/30/2011 6:43:26 PM PDT · by martosko · 38 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 10/30/2011 | Alex Pappas
    Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s campaign is accusing Politico of “unsubstantiated personal attacks” after the news outlet published a story Sunday night claiming two unnamed women made sexual harassment allegations against the candidate more than a decade ago. “Fearing the message of Herman Cain who is shaking up the political landscape in Washington, Inside the Beltway media have begun to launch unsubstantiated personal attacks on Cain,” J.D. Gordon, Cain’s spokesman, said in a statement provided to The Daily Caller. Gordon continued: “Dredging up thinly sourced allegations stemming from Mr. Cain’s tenure as the Chief Executive Officer at the National Restaurant...
  • Chef Attacks Kitchen Worker After Critic Calls Food 'Disgusting'

    09/10/2011 3:04:27 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    Digital Journal ^ | Lynn Curwin
    A chef at a restaurant in Wales admitted he shoved a kitchen worker down the stairs after a critic called the food they had served "disgusting." Charlie McCubbin, 51, is the owner-chef of The River Cafe in Glasbury-on-Wye, which was visited by Sunday Times critic AA Gill. Bruce Gray, defending, told the court that at the end of his meal Gill was asked whether he enjoyed it. "Iin his rather flippant manner, his response was: 'Disgusting'," the BBC quoted Gray as saying. "I say this to give you some idea of the stress of working in an environment where reputation...
  • Virtual co-op links farmers, restaurants

    08/30/2011 6:58:20 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 16 replies
    The Salisbury Post ^ | August 22, 2011 | Dr. Francis Koster
    It is possible to create jobs, have healthier diets and improve the local economy by re-birthing local agriculture on small plots of land. Each pound of lettuce or eggs or beef shipped from California, Latin America or Mexico raises our dependency on foreign oil. And buying food from far away costs us jobs locally. Some communities have figured out a new path forward that fixes all that. North Carolina’s Rutherford County has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. Yet some 6,000 families own between 5 and 20 acres of land, and chefs in nearby Charlotte are in...
  • Domino's, Denny's And Wendy's All At Risk Of Going Broke (w/obligatory Palin snark included)

    07/04/2011 1:19:27 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 80 replies · 1+ views
    Pop Blend ^ | July 4, 2011 | Jacob Sundstrom
    We live in a backwards world where great things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people, and where Sarah Palin is considered a legitimate presidential candidate. The greatest example of the inverse nature of our universe is the success, or lack of success found by restaurants around the world, particularly the United States. We live in a world where Noah’s Bagels nears bankruptcy while McDonalds thrives on our fatty flesh (and charging for sauce packets? GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE.). In a list published by The Street, twenty restaurant chains are at risk of going under....
  • Report: Denny's, Wendy's and Domino's among restaurants in danger of bankruptcy (Obama Depression)

    06/30/2011 1:45:17 PM PDT · by TSgt · 222 replies
    WCPO ^ | 06/30/2011 | Pete Kenworthy
    Following bankruptcy filings by Sbarro, Perkins and Marie Callender’s this year, new data suggests that other popular restaurant chains are in danger of following suit. TheStreet.com recently looked at restaurants based on their Altman Z-Score. The website says the score is based on “several aspects of a company's financial health -- including working capital, total assets, total liabilities, market capitalization, sales, retained earnings and earnings before interest & taxes (EBIT) -- to forecast the probability of it going bankrupt within two years.” Since it began the scoring system in 1968, TheStreet says the formula has been 72 percent accurate in...
  • Ohio poised to approve concealed-carry law allowing guns in bars, restaurants and stadiums

    06/01/2011 5:39:12 AM PDT · by marktwain · 5 replies
    COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio legislature is on the verge of approving one of the country's most wide-reaching bills allowing concealed firearms in places that serve alcohol, including bars and stadiums. Lawmakers who support the measure argue that Ohio is merely catching up to 42 other states that already allow concealed carry permit holders to tote their firearms in booze-pouring establishments. But that's not the whole story. No two state laws are the same. Some allow it in restaurants but not bars. Others prohibit guns in stadiums. Some block firearms in nightclubs. Some states have no law addressing the issue...
  • Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels

    05/16/2011 9:34:17 PM PDT · by Nachum · 68 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 5/16/11 | Matthew Boyle
    Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district. That’s in addition to the 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services approved. Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers. Other common waiver...
  • Lizard in Restaurant Sold for $8

    05/07/2011 1:56:31 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Emirates 24/7 ^ | Saturday, May 07, 2011
    A big desert lizard wreaked havoc inside a restaurant in Saudi Arabia when it sneaked into the place before it was auctioned for around $8, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Customers inside the restaurant in the central province of Ras ran out in panic when the lizard, weighing more than three kg, walked into the place, 'Al Riyadh' Arabic language daily said. The lizard had managed to flee municipality cleaners who seized it at a nearby cemetery and headed for the restaurant, apparently attracted by the smell of food, the paper said. “Customers fled the restaurant in panic before a...
  • FDA proposes calorie counts on menus

    04/02/2011 10:11:41 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 61 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | April 2, 2011 | Mary Clare Jalonick
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- It could get harder to indulge in a double cheeseburger and fries without feeling guilty. Menu labeling requirements proposed Friday by the Food and Drug Administration will require chain restaurants with 20 or more locations, along with bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores and coffee chains, to clearly post the calorie count for each item on their menus. "We've got a huge obesity problem in this country and it's due in part to excess calorie consumption outside the home," says Mike Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for foods. "Consumers generally when you ask them say they would prefer to...
  • FDA Sets Rules for Vending Machine Calorie Info

    04/01/2011 5:07:12 PM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 15 replies
    FDA Sets Rules for Vending Machine Calorie Info By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today Published: April 01, 2011 Click here to provide feedback WASHINGTON -- Chain restaurants, vending machines, and convenience stores would all have to prominently display the calorie counts of their foods under two proposed rules released by the FDA Friday. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated that vending machines and food establishments with 20 or more locations -- which includes fast-food restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops, and certain grocery and convenience stores -- display the calorie counts of their food items. The new rules would implement...
  • Debate surrounds proposed concealed weapons bill(NC)

    04/01/2011 5:54:34 AM PDT · by marktwain · 4 replies
    wect.com ^ | 31 March, 2011 | Gavin Johnson
    COLUMBUS COUNTY, NC (WECT) - The second amendment to the US constitution is the right to keep and bear arms. If a new weapon bill passes the state senate, people with concealed weapon permits would be able to carry handguns in state parks, and restaurants unless the restaurant owner posts a sign stating guns are not allowed. For Jonathan Stevens, the timing of the bill couldn't be better. He recently completed a concealed weapons permit class. "In the class you learn law, watch videos, and I had to have a mental evaluation, and background check done," said Stevens. Some people...
  • Michelle Denies the Fries

    02/09/2011 3:26:21 AM PST · by Scanian · 32 replies · 2+ views
    The American Thinker Blog ^ | February 09, 2011 | Jeannie DeAngelis
    Wonder if the First Lady monitored portions at the Super Bowl Sunday Bratwurst Fest, because the woman who put double-stuffed potatoes on the menu is about to dictate what is sanctioned on restaurant menus across America. After filling school vending machines with substances no self-respecting kid would ever eat and after bossing around food makers, rewriting nutrition labels, and attempting to worm her way into cupboards, refrigerators and grocery carts, Michelle is one forkful away from dictating the foods restaurants are allowed to put on your plate. According to White House and industry officials: "A team of advisers to the...
  • The Worst "Free" Restaurant Food (according to the Yahoo Health Guy)

    01/21/2011 12:41:14 PM PST · by DemforBush · 53 replies
    Yahoo (health) ^ | 1/18/11 | David Zinczenko
    Remember the story of Hansel and Gretel? How the witch of the woods lured them into her edible candy hut and gave them piles and piles of free food—just so she could fatten them up and turn them into stew? Well, think about that old fairy tale the next time a waiter drops a plate of “free” food on your table...
  • Utah’s culinary all-stars Resolutions

    01/04/2011 12:56:40 PM PST · by Utah Binger · 8 replies
    The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 01/04/2011 | Kathy Stephenson
    So many of our New Year’s resolutions may have something to do with food: eating less, eating better; eating differently or even eating something we’ve grown. With that in mind, we asked some of Utah’s culinary all-stars to share their food resolutions for 2011.
  • Joe's Burger Search

    01/01/2011 12:10:18 PM PST · by wizkid · 217 replies
    Joe's Burger Search ^ | 12/31/2010 | WizKid
    Welcome to my search for the perfect burger. My mission is to search and inform one burger at a time.